The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-01

Our lives to thy honor,
We wish TO employ.
Prayer by Elder Charles w. Stayner'
Choir sang:
know that my Redeemer lives. etc.
ELDER JOHN NICHOLSON said he arose
by request to speak to the Saints. The
Saints had met together to tender to
their Heavenly Father their devotion, to
speak of His goodness and of His will
concerning them and also to partake of
the Sacrament as the emblems of the
death and sutferings of our great risen
Redeemer. This should be done, he
said, in the spirit thereof, and not as a
matter of form, which sometimes, or
with some, seems too much the case.
Those. of the Latter day Saints who
have been gathered out from the world
are acquainted with the ideas of modern
Christendom; as, for instance, their
belief in God, who, they say is three
persons in enc body. The Latter-day
Saints believe in three persons as con-
shutting the god-head. These are one
as Jesus and His dlscip es were to
become one. Jesus declared himself to
be the exact image of His Father and
He came down upon this earth to do the
work of the Father. When Jesus was
baptized of John in the river Jordan the
Holy Ghost appeared in the form OF
dove. At the same time voice came
from heaven, saying: Behold, this is
my beloved Son in whom l am well
pleased" There were exhibited three
distinct beings, in distinct characters.
hese we recognize as the godhead and
they each bear testimony of the others.
In the Almighty we believe is the
fuilnesS of light and truth, for He is the
fountain of intelligence, light and love.
The Holy Ghost is also the embodims Mt
of intelligence and light, and the
power of God which communicates the
light and the truths of the Almighty 10
the souls OF His children. Because our
Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus
Christ are foundations of light and
possess a fulness of knowledge, Justice.
mercy and truth, they are Justly
entitled to our admiration and our will
ing obedience. Intelligence is the glory
of God, and one of the fundamental
principles required for the attainment
of eternal salvation. The gospel is cal
culated to take within its scope all who
have the moral will to desire to obey the
truth; and one who is corrupt, whatever
may be his natural degree of intelli-
gence, must become purified from his
corruption before he can be saved. When
this condition is reached. man may
receive light and intelligence from
above.
Something over fifty years age, we, as
Latter-day Saints believe, the heavens
we're opened and the Almighty organize d
the nucleus of His kingdom upon the
earth, and revealed to His people prin-
ciples by which the world is to be reVo-
lutionized. The Lord is taking His
own way to bring this about, and many
can not see how it is beng accomplished.
1t is the duty of the priesthood, the
shepherds of the flock, to maintain, or to
seek to keep, the purity and cleanliness
of the flock. There is among US, on
some occasions, a wrong conception of
mercy A wicked, corrupt man is able
to do more hurt in week or a month
than he can do good in year, or in
many years of his life. What is the con-
centrated essence of our duty as a
church, 1t is, in the words OF reveIa-
ton itself: HE who sinneth and re-
penteth not shall be cast out" Who
is the sinner who can complain of such
q condition. If there ever was time
in the history of this church when the
powers of the heavens were manifest,
that time is now and will continue from
this time on. This work is progressing,
notwithstanding the opposition of our
enemies. There is a great work being
done behind the veil with the spirits Of
those who had not an opportunity in
this world to partake in the work of
the Almighty upon the earth, and there
is union between the church of the
First Born in the spirit world and that
upon the earth. This work will pro
gress and those who can not see that
they are fighting the work of the Al
mighty will see the time when they will
weep for the Calamities of their country,
for breaking down the bulwarks of
liberty and ignoring the rights of their
felloW-men. Every true Latter-day
Saint is calling out to-day for his rights.
The elders of this church go out among
the nations of the earth and declare
what they know TO be truth, crying unto
the people to repent of their inlquities,
and proclaiming that their testimony
will be followed by the testimony OF
thunder and earthquakes, of famlnes, OF
peSulence and Of war. These things will
not come upon the earth because the
Lord is a vindictiye God; but they will
come to pass because this planet must
follow the course of other planets which
have been purified and celestialized for
the abode of the righteous children of
God.
The choir sang an antbem and the
oenediction was pronounced by Elder
Abraham Fl. Cannon.
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